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Childcare and Mothers' Employment: Approaching the Millennium [PDF]
, 2006 Childcare provision in the UK has evolved alongside the expansion of mothers’ employment, transforming the experiences of successive generations. This paper reviews some mixed evidence on outcomes of maternal employment and offers a detailed examination ...
Hansen, Kirstine +2 more
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The effects of early years' childcare on child emotional and behavioural difficulties in lone and co-parent family situations [PDF]
, 2013 With targeted childcare initiatives and welfare-to-work programmes policy-makers have sought to address employment activation of lone mothers and negative outcomes for children in lone parent households.
ANTHONY GLENDINNING +16 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundAccountability strategies are expected to enhance access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) service delivery in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC).
Ivy Chumo +5 more
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Lone parents and informal childcare: A tax credit childcare subsidy? [PDF]
, 2006 The Labour government aims to increase the lone parent employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010. To achieve this aim, it has introduced a state subsidy for childcare in the form of the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit.
Finch, Naomi, Skinner, Christine
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Global Public Health, 2023 Adolescent mothers face numerous challenges. This study aimed to address the operationalisation of the new South African national policy for young mothers by testing the associations of potential protective provisions with three policy goals: School ...
Janina Jochim +12 more
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Nurses and the COVID-19 Pandemic - Practices and Identity Construction in Formal and Informal Care
Gender a Výzkum, 2023 The pandemic highlighted the importance of both formal and informal care and magnified gender inequalities in this area. Women were more represented in care-related frontline professions (including nurses), but they were also more often responsible for ...
Marie Pospíšilová
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Breastfeeding-friendly policies and programs in three public Universities in Ghana
International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022 Background The United Nations through its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3 and 5 has championed Women empowerment for exclusive breastfeeding through various action plans and expected the concept to be decentralized through locally mandatory ...
Fred Yao Gbagbo, Jacqueline Nkrumah
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BMJ Open, 2021 Introduction Globally, children do not eat enough core foods, with vegetable intakes persistently low. Early life is critical for establishing vegetable acceptance and intake.
Rebecca K Golley +6 more
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Institutional support for breastfeeding in Ghana: a case study of University of Education, Winneba
BMC Research Notes, 2018 Objectives This study explored institutional support for breastfeeding student-mothers in the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. It also examined challenges associated with combining academic work with breastfeeding and childcare.
Jacqueline Nkrumah, Fred Yao Gbagbo
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Childcare in Italy among migrants and natives: who uses which type and why?
Genus, 2023 The Italian welfare state is characterised by a preference for income transfers over transfers in kind and the marginal role of policies aimed directly at supporting the family. Despite the growing participation of women in the labour market, the Italian
Eleonora Mussino, Livia Elisa Ortensi
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